WORKERS OVER AGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 99, 27 March 1939, Page 7

WORKERS OVER AGE

SECURITY BENEFITS.

TRANSFER FROM SCHEMES

WEEK’S NOTICE GIVEN, By a decision of the Government, all men over 60 years of age who are registered as unemployed and are either on sustenance or unemployable, or on public and local body works at full rates under the Labour Department's employment promotion plan, are to be transferred to the Social Security ago benefits, if qualified. Consequently 33 of the 263 men employed in the Palmerston North district under Scheme No. 13, and paid from the Employment Promotion Fund, have received a week’s notice, and will cease work next Friday.

No instructions have been received by the district employment officer, Mr L. W. Cozens, regarding the remainder of the men employed under Scheme No. 13, but the change over involved in the operation of the Social Security Act on April 1 is gradually clearing up doubts as to the position between unemployment and social security benefits under the new scheme.

Tlie intention is to remove employment promotion schemes from the control of the Labour Department, which will revert to its former functions of administering the labour laws of the Dominion, while all problems of assistance for unemployment and relief work will come under the supervision of the Social Security Department.